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- 1071: A Summary of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... the other members, he resigns from the gang. Another person who tries to get Huckleberry Finn to change is Pap, Huck's father. Pap is one of the most astonishing figures in all of American literature as he is completely antisocial and wishes to undo all of the civilizing effects that the Widow and Miss Watson have attempted to instill in Huck. Pap is a mess: he is unshaven; his hair ...
- 1072: Summary of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" With Background About Steinbeck
- ... as a group reading project, and the principal authorizes it. John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, Monterey County, California. He was an American author, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. Steinbeck's best known fiction tells about the struggles of poor people. His most famous novel, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) won the 1940 Pulitzer prize. The novel tells the story of the Joads, a ...
- 1073: Norris' "McTeague": Themes
- ... us realistically what the world was like. Works Cited Jason Resputini, "The McTeague page," Http://www.merkan.com/~ Jason/McTeague, Revised August 29, 1995 ed.: 1. Thomas k. Dean, "The Flight of McTeagues song bird." Literature/Film Quarterly volume 18, Number 2 (1990): 20. Richard D. Alexander, Darwinism and Human Afairs (New York, NY: Random House, 1979) 213.
- 1074: John Steinbeck's`"In Dubios Battle": Summary
- ... nuts, and they used the anger they had inside of them to go and break down the barricade that the police had set up down the road. In Dubious Battle is a classic piece of literature. It not only deals with the struggle of the poor man against the rich, but it incorporates teamwork and self discipline to achieve a specific goal. In this case the conflict was the workers wanedt ...
- 1075: Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now
- ... it is not something that we can easily categorize. It's a search-a search through the bloody holocaust that is our nightmare of Vietnam, a search through all the myths and motifs of Western literature and movies, a search along a glistening river surrounded by shadows, a search toward death and dissolution.(Wilmington 288) Wilmington can give us some categorization of what the horror might mean in the movie, but ...
- 1076: All Quiet on the Western Front: Alienation
- ... Paul goes home on leave in Chapter 7. The Kaiser's visit in Chapter 9 adds some hints of Remarque's specific disillusionment with the leaders of his own country. From a broad study of literature and world history, we can see that these older people were not individually to blame for their views. They were simply handing on what was handed on to them. Still, we can also understand why ...
- 1077: An Analysis of The Lord of the Flies
- An Analysis of The Lord of the Flies The novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Gerald Golding, is a remarkable piece of literature that discusses many important topics while remaining an enjoyable read. One of the important topics that is discussed in the novel is human nature. Many aspects of human nature is depicted in the book, but ...
- 1078: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... s plans did not exactly go as he reckoned they would. He had many print'in jobs cross the whole country. Dur'in this time Sam met a fella named Burruogh. He was in to literature and was a well read man. He had quite the influence on Sam and turned him on to read'in. Eventually, Sam returned back in St. Louis and worked for the Evening News. Well by ...
- 1079: Stoker's Dragula: Devices
- Stoker's Dragula: Devices Throughout the prolific past of classic English literature, there were writers that were prone to create a perfect, high-class setting in which the characters were of upper standards. Then there were the writers who wanted to create fear and absolute terror for ...
- 1080: Tarrou: The Plague's Only Hero
- ... a hero because he provides a correct model on how to deal with death. For fighting the plague, he gets symbolically crushed. Without Tarrou, "The Plague" wouldn't have the hero common to almost all literature. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bree, Germaine. Camus. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1962. McCarthy, Patrick. "The Plague." In Albert Camus, p.107-113. Edited by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989.
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